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Commemorative issue the principality of asturias, an autonomous community within the kingdom of spain obverse asturian victoria cross features: country spain type circulating commemorative coin year value 5 pesetas (5 esp) metal aluminium-bronze weight 3 g diameter 175 mm thickness 1
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The author of the two manuscript treatises is pedro de lucuce y ponce, also written as lucuze (avilés, -barcelona, ); asturian scientist, military and mathematicianhe died in barcelona 7 years after having written these two treatiseshe belonged to several regiments, studying mathematics and the art of war on his own, and it turned out that he was admitted to the royal corps of engineers, with the rank of lieutenant and extraordinary engineer on januaryour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store"tratado 8º de la arquitectura civil": 5 blank sheets, 86 phe was born in avilés, the son of the doctor tomás de lucuze, where he spent his childhood and youth"tratado 7º de la estática": 162 pin , from his position as director general of artillery and engineers, he was appointed director of the royal society of mathematics (predecessor of the royal academy of exact, physical and natural sciences), founded by the count of aranda, a position he held until , when the academy disappeared after the resignation of the count of arandahe was director until the year of his deathhe studied latinity at the villa de avilés and humanities at the university of oviedoon the back of the last page, the inscription "it is in accordance with the compendium of architecture, which is taught in the third class of the royal academy of barcelona"in the two years of operation, lucuze managed to collect a total of volumes of scientific works, many of which went to the barcelona academytwo volumes in 4to (20catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablehis first destination was on the shores of granadamagnificent full leather binding, guards in marbled paper, red-tinted cuts and spine with a five-rib compositiondon pedro de lucuze"in lucuze wrote a regulation for the academies, establishing studies of three years, in four nine-month courses: the first two dedicated to military training in general and the last two specialized for the instruction of artillery and engineering officersin he was appointed assistant professor to the director of the royal military academy of barcelona until , when he was appointed head director by the minister of war josé patiñowithin the military ranking of the royal corps of engineers, in he was promoted to chief engineer and in to director engineerplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitebarcelona, octoberin he was appointed field marshal and, in early , shortly before his death, he was promoted to lieutenant generalthe plates are chalcographic engravings with architectural and geometric figures, very common in the scientific books of the time (attached to the manuscript according to the author's criteria)are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiwith handwritten text, 14 blank sheets, 11 folded plates with printssame exquisite calligraphy in both volumes; clean, elegant and perfectly legiblein he abandoned the career of theology just started, preferring the military careerwith handwritten text, 8 blank sheets, 6 folded plates with printson the back of the last page the inscription "is in accordance with the compendium of static, which is taught in the 3rd class of this royal academy
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